Lars Ulrik Mortensen

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Lars Ulrik Mortensen is a Danish harpsichordist and conductor.

He studied with Karen Englund (harpsichord) and Jesper Bøje Christensen (figured bass) at The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Trevor Pinnock in London.

He has a career as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, North and South America and Japan. From 1988 to 1990 he was harpsichordist in London Baroque, and from 1990 to 1993 he was a member of Collegium Musicum 90. He appears regularly with singer Emma Kirkby, violinist John Holloway and cellist and gambist Jaap ter Linden. He has recorded for Archiv Produktion (3rd harpsichord in Bach's 3- and 4-harpsichord concerti with The English Concert), harmonia mundi, Kontrapunkt and da capo and his recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations won him a Diapason d'Or. He is the artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen, and appears regularly directing opera at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. He also directed the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2003.

He was professor of harpsichord and performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich frin 1996-1999. In 2007 he was awarded the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, 'Denmark's premier music award.'